Let’s not forget that Alan Moore once pitched a comic* where Billy Batson - unable to cope psychologically with the trauma of becoming Captain Marvel - compensates by enjoying lots of kinky BDSM. At least until he’s murdered by J’onn J’onzz as part of an Oan-led alien plot to invade Earth.

Dad, what’s a Simpson?

A small thing but... pretending The Muppet Show was made in Hollywood and not the home counties of the UK makes the 2011 movie feel less authentic than it should. It’s still fun but it’s trying to self-mythologise in a way that over-rides the ramshackle and unlikely glory of the original.

As someone who’s been repeatedly “warned” whenever I’ve borrowed from the World Cinema section of the library, I can attest that this is a problem with the Anglosphere, not just with Americans.

Because the awards are given (for the most part) to films released in the UK within the previous year. ‘My Life with a Courgette’ was released on 2 June 2017, comfortably within that period.

The dates are a bit off for “the captain” to be Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart’s dad. The latter first appears in the contemporary-ish ‘The Web of Fear’ from 1968, by which time any of the captain’s children would be at least 54 and Nicholas Courtney is clearly much younger. It’s possible that the captain fathers him…

God’s Not Dead 3: Pining for the Fjords

God’s Not Dead 3: Who Is This God Person Anyway?

This is something like the fourth or fifth version of ‘Shada’ that’s been touted as the definitive reconstruction. At this rate they’re going to displace the Metaphor of the Cave as the exemplar of Platonic Idealism.

That Hermann Hesse vibe is sooo distracting.

What a peculiar view of how casting - or any kind of employment - works.

I presumed the ‘Death on the Nile’ line was supposed to be an in joke* rather than setting up a sequel based on a novel that rather requires Poirot to have been around the suspects long in advance of the first murder.

This is exactly how the people who’ve greenlit the last 6 years’ worth of DC movies think.

Uh, it’s not a secret. We’re told exactly who Hela is before she makes her first appearance.

The familiar elements in TFA struck me as having three purposes: 1) as a conscious setting aside of the past and handing over of the story to Rey, Finn and Kylo Ren; 2) to make the Star Wars milieu seem fresh after the prequels had sucked the life and joy out of it; and 3) to try to make sense of some of Lucas’s more…

The Terror is basically the manipulative scumbag ex who doesn’t call for ages then turns up unexpectedly on your doorstep to beg favours and ruin your life.

According to later episodes, Dr Karamazov is speaking Romanian. (Though with a name like that he may well be Russian.)